Scott Pruitt can he get any more weird?

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IronWing

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Update:

$50 per night condo land lord, was actively lobbying the EPA.
Also there was some mention about a job for Scott’s friend/daughter.
Someone help me on this I just heard it on the radio.
Pruitt currently has 15 and maybe 16 ethics investigations
Sounds like he needs that AG job more than ever.
 

hal2kilo

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What's crazy is that all of these 20+ major and minor scandals are only the ones we know about. Guy had a cone of silence installed and was focused on hiding his policie from public view. What else is remaining to be uncovered, based on actual work done in the name of the EPA??
And mysteriously, there's like only one official email of record from his account. Hmmm....... wonder how he's communicating, couldn't possibly be a private account.
 

trenchfoot

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Pruitt can have any number of investigations against him but with a unified Repub gov't for him to hide behind, Pruitt is instead being patted on the head, given a plethora of att'a boy's and a wink/nod signifying that all of those investigations are going to be shoved off to the side and left there to rot into oblivion.

Hillary, however.......................
 

brycejones

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Has he hit anyone up to send a male stripper to his office yet with a bag of meth?

I think that's about all that is left at this point. But he will still be doing a fine job at the EPA of course.
 

dainthomas

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Pruitt can have any number of investigations against him but with a unified Repub gov't for him to hide behind, Pruitt is instead being patted on the head, given a plethora of att'a boy's and a wink/nod signifying that all of those investigations are going to be shoved off to the side and left there to rot into oblivion.

Hillary, however.......................

Pruitt is Mexican governor-level corrupt. If he was a Dem he'd be in Gitmo.
 

K1052

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Pruitt personally "ratfucking" former aides he decides are disloyal...

But even though Hupp was gone from the agency, Pruitt wasn’t done with her.

According to three sources familiar with the conversations, Pruitt was livid over Hupps testimony, which he felt had been particularly humiliating. And he personally reached out to allies in the conservative movement, including some at the influential legal group the Federalist Society, to insist that she had lied about, or at least misunderstood, the request for a used Trump mattress. He also stressed that Hupp could not be trusted—the implication being that she should not be hired at their perspective institutions.


But it also showed a side of the EPA chief that top advisers say is not always readily apparent to the public. Though Pruitt demands loyalty among those in his inner circle, he has not reciprocated it to his aides, even as they face a legal and public relations backlash stemming from his conduct at the EPA. Sources say he’s actively undermined the reputations of former and current staffers, with campaigns that former senior EPA officials have described as “ratfucking.”


https://www.thedailybeast.com/scott...im?via=twitter_page&__twitter_impression=true
 

HomerJS

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Scott Pruitt alone in 18 months has exceed the corruption level of the entire Obama administration of 8 years.
 

HomerJS

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Woman approaches Scott Pruitt in a restaurant and politely asks him to resign. I'm sure Fox will be on the air labeling this as a violent attack.

 

Commodus

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Pruitt can call it harassment when he stops screaming "I'm corrupt to the core" with every breath he takes.
 

brycejones

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Pruitt asked an aide to get his wife a job of "at LEAST" 200k.

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1013960538102161408

I'm impressed by the level of corruption actually. Usually its one or two things that come out, but this guy has a new allegation every fucking week.

I wouldn't be shocked if he still has a high approval rating in his home state. The damn liburl muckrakers forcing this poor godly man to do things that get him in the news. Why can't they just leave him alone?
 

HomerJS

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Scott Pruitt alone in 18 months has exceed the corruption level of the entire Obama administration of 8 years.
Pruitt asked an aide to get his wife a job of "at LEAST" 200k.

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1013960538102161408

I'm impressed by the level of corruption actually. Usually its one or two things that come out, but this guy has a new allegation every fucking week.
and I repeat
Scott Pruitt alone in 18 months has exceed the corruption level of the entire Obama administration of 8 years.
 

trenchfoot

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And let's not forget that Pruitt is actually the face of what the Repub Party has become, let alone what it's still morphing into. Pruitt represents the true nature of the party and who actually controls it.

On the one hand, you have the emotionally corrupted base of the party driving things along like they're told, refusing to question their leaders as to why they always end up holding the tail of the elephant and getting crapped on instead of holding the trunk of the beast and leading the party in ways that benefit themselves economically.

On the other, you have a Repub leadership that is forced to continuously cover layers of lies over the other in order to keep the status quo, and all of these lies concentrate on keeping the emotions of their constituency at a highly agitated state and focused on an enemy that are from the same economic demographic as them instead of their own leaders who are ripping them off and laughing their asses off while they're at it.

Repub party leadership know where all the red hot buttons are that are wired directly into the emotional trigger points of their constituent's minds, most if not all of them single issue topics that are hammered into their constituency most always involving, hate, fear and prejudice in lieu of providing their constituency the means for creating and acquiring better paying jobs with the backing of a compassionate and caring government.

The GOP is clearly and now so much more obviously predatory in nature, victimizing their own working class constituency and thus that whole demographic in order to exclusively benefit the aristocrat class of our nation.

Their working class constituency as well as "their enemies" of the same economic status would have been much better off if they were to take an honest assessment of whether it's much more important to build a wall, or shut out the world that they were told was the cause of their miseries, or jailing Hillary, or all of those other single point issues that literally make these working class folks totally ignore the reality that they have the power to join with their brethren from the "evil, godless, communist immigrant loving" side (as they were told) and give themselves a leg up on seriously improving their quality of life at the expense of, well, absolutely nothing other than clearing their minds of the hate and fear that their party leaders have imbued them with.
 

UNCjigga

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I think Pruitt may be going for some sort of record here. What, he's been in a federal cabinet position for 18 months now? It seems he's outdone 30 years' worth of scandals for both Clintons. I dare anyone here to argue that Pruitt is less swampy than either Clinton, let alone both of them combined.